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Several months ago, Dr. John Kunkel Small of the New York Botanical Garden took a train ride through the Mississippi delta, looked out of the window with his knowing botanical eye at the lush growth of the southern swamps. Suddenly he saw something which made him want to stop the...
Operas new to the list are Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson (TIME, July 28), Felice Lattuada's Preziose Ridicole, Moussorgsky's unfinished Fair at Sorotchinsk, Franz von Suppé's Boccaccio, Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, Mascagni's Iris, Rossini's William Tell...
¶ Tycoon, Clifford D. Mallory's 12-metre sailing yacht: a 19-mile race from William Vincent Astor's Iris in the opening regatta of the Long Island Sound championships off Rye, N. Y.
Soprano Edith Mason failed, despite expert singing, to save Pietro Mascagni's Iris from dulldom.
¶Other operas new to the Chicago repertoire will be Mascagni's Iris with Edith Mason, Antonio Cortis, Giacomo Rimini. Virgilio Lazzari; Riccardo Zandonai's Conchita with Rosa Raisa; Massenet's Don Quichotte with Vanni-Marcoux, Hallie Stiles and Desire Defrere.